Starcraft Secret Mission Part 2

Spoiler Alert! Both part 1 and 2 of this article contain major spoilers for the single player campaign of Starcraft 2.

So once you land on the platform in orbit around Castanar, you get about 5 Marines, 2 Medics and 1 Jim Raynor. You get to use a bunch of abilities in this mission and find ammo for them. You get a bazooka, grenades, a breaching charge, and even a fancy alien Chrono Field to slow your enemies (which you will need).

There are also a series of computer terminals that allow your adjutant to hack into the Lab's mainframe and turn the automated defenses on the Dominion forces, which is always fun.

As you make your way through the lab fighting various and sundry Dominion forces, you discover that Mengsk had been funding a project that was trying to combine Protoss and Zerg DNA. Once you blow the reactor, a hybrid breaks out of its cage and destroys everything. All hell breaks loose and it turns into a race as Dominion forces are fighting you and Zerg and Protoss specimens they had been keeping around.

The whole time this giant, indestructible monstrosity chases you throughout the complex. There's fallen debris in your way, of course, and Zerg eggs that hatch miniature Ultralisks. Use the bazooka or grenades on the debris and use Chrono Field on the Hybrid when he gets close.

On my first play through on the easiest setting I managed to make it to the dropship with only Jim Raynor left. This is a great mission and should get your heart pumping because the hybrid is fast and can slow all your units down for a short time. At a certain point, you have to decide to just keep running and dodge the enemies in front of you and ignore the Zerglings killing off your friends just so you can make it out alive.

The secret mission adds another unique mission to the already robust and exhilarating Starcraft single player campaign. If you have not gotten your hands on this game yet, you need to.

Starcraft 2 Secret Mission Part 1

Spoiler alert! If you do not wish to spoil your experience of the Starcraft 2 campaign, then read no further.

In the Secret Mission in Starcraft 2, it is revealed that Mengsk had a top secret science lab conducting very dangerous experiments in a far off corner of the Galaxy. The mission is called Piercing the Shroud. You control Raynor and a small group of Marines and Medics.

In order to get access to the Secret Mission in Starcraft 2 you have to start a new campaign. Simply going through the archives to replay a mission won't work if you've already begun your assault on Char. Remember the warning sign that came up and said once you begin your assault on Char there's no going back? Well they mean it as far as the secret mission is concerned.

I suggest you play the missions on casual so they go faster and easier if you're just trying to get to the secret mission, or you could try to pick up the achievements you missed on the way, but you'll need to get to the Media Blitz mission. That's the one where there's a parade on Korhal for the fabulous Odin war machine and Tychus starts blowing the place up. Alternatively, if you have a saved game before the invasion of char, you can load it and start from there.

In this mission, there is a Science Facility in the bottom right corner of the map. It's colored red like the rest of the Dominion forces, but when you mouse over it the building will appear neutral and the tooltip will actually say Korhal Citizens on it. When you kill this building Secret Documents will drop, and you'll have to move a unit over it to collect it just like you were collecting Protoss or Zerg research items.

Then, when you finish the Media Blitz mission, your mission selection screen will have a new planet on it called Castanar. It will also say Secret Mission on it so you're not confused.

After the cutscene you will be able to take Raynor and a crack team of Marines and medics to the orbital platform to investigate just what's going on in that secret lab. As you already know, secret labs are never doing anything good.